Insurance Whistleblower Nails CIGNA

Wendell Potter, former cheif spokesperson for CIGNA, tells it like it is.

HOMEWORK:

MUST READ: Transcript of 7-10-09 Bill Moyers interview with Wendell Potter:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/transcript2.html

Truthdig article featuring Wendell Potter:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090714_health-insurance_whistle_blower_...

Single Payer Action:
http://www.singlepayeraction.org

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[gbmarshall]

So if the people are behind it, who isn't? Congress? Insurance Companies? What's the real next step to moving this along? it's not even being discussed in the debate in Washington.

[jperryam]

Exactly. The insurance companies because it doesn't serve their ever-growing lust for profit at the expense of our health, and Congress because they're beholden to the insurance companies who keep them swimming in campaign cash. Which is why single payer isn't being talked about. The real next step is people hounding their reps until they get it done. I've contacted mine multiple times on this issue. But too many are content to sit back and let others speak up. That won't get it done...

[gbmarshall]

If I ws a billionaire, I would run your video on all the news networks 100 times a day until the people in this country outed the 1500 'health' insurance companies...maybe you should make a record like Ronald Reagan did and mail it to every one in the USA and they can have tea partys until they realize that single payer is great.

[jperryam]

Thanks, gb. But the majority of Americans already support universal/single payer healthcare (December 2007 AP/Yahoo poll, January 2009 New York Times/CBS poll). And as Dennis Kucinich pointed out the other day, a recent USA Today poll reveals that only 4% trust insurance companies. We just need more people to act on their beliefs. If everyone who says "I agree, but Congress will never do it" actually stood up and DEMANDED it, single payer would happen. Corruption thrives on Americans' apathy.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Terrorizing the injured, these insurance companies. Workers Compensation is horrible and the doctors and lawyers slaughter most of the cases, leaving the injured without much compensation.

[1mealperday]

loved your rant, to me the bigger issue is the lies.LIES and more lies. its the lies drive me over the edge. its really hard to piss me off, but continiual lies have done it. Zero confidence in political parties, USD,Feds==yuck. i gotta stop. center,forget it

[angerjohn]

word on the beatles pictures

[clarisd]

This just another abuse that continues, when are we going to realize that the upper middle class and the rich class and half of the wealthy class, are throwing the rest of us under the BUS, I feel that these classes in their continued war to usurp the Elite will leave the world full of people that think they are important. Why can't the Elite realize the poor and working classes are not the problem, it is all the above. The other classes always state do you know who I am, CAP

[medicatedsaint]

..."you're paying..."

[medicatedsaint]

We already have that. It's called "deny healthcare" even if your paying a premium. Go back to your Glenn Beck channel and fantasize about guerrilla warfare somewhere else.

[RodneyHampton]

I'd rather that the states tackle this since the role more properly falls to them. I also like the idea of having my eggs (the health of the nation) in 50 baskets where there's a lot more experimentation and innovation instead of trying to put all the eggs in one basket up front. As I've often said, there's no difference in insurable risk for basic medical care and preventative medicine. So long as we can still supplement with private insurance I don't have many quibbles with this.

[t4705mb6]

In the early 1920s/30s, the Rothschild international investment "group" investigated ways to make windfall profits in....healthcare.

They decided that advancements in reseacrch meant that less & less people would become ill. They bought up health facilities, drug companies, insurance companies & invested in military "death labs". They had decided to make & KEEP people sick!

They invented the TV blurb, "Ask Your Doctor" - it proved profitable when selling WORTHLESS & even DANGEROUS drugs.